School: Cúil Mhaoile (Scoil N. Feichín)
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eachmharcaigh
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- Q. What twelve coins make one shilling without pence?
A. Eight farthings, two half-pence, one three-penny bit and one sixpenny bit.
Q. Two women going to market with eggs. One woman said to the other "if you give me one egg, I will have as much as you." "No." said the second woman. "But if you give me one egg I will have twice as much as you." How many eggs had each of them?
A. One had five and the other seven.
Q. What is the difference between a priest and a cobbler?
A. One is for mending soles and the other for saving souls.
Q. I washed my face with water that never fell or ran, and I dried it with a towel that was never spun or woven.
A. I washed it with the dew and dried it with the sun.
Q. What are the three hardest things to be found?
A. A shoe for the foot of the mountain, a towel to dry the face of the earth and a sheet for the bed of the ocean.
Q. As I looked over my father's garden wall I saw(continues on next page)- Collector
- Pauline Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glen, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Mullen
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 44
- Address
- Glen, Co. Sligo